Comments on: Stanford football: Post-UCLA bowl updatehttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2012/11/24/stanford-football-post-ucla-bowl-update/
With Jon WilnerSun, 05 Nov 2017 03:16:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.5By: notso shurhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2012/11/24/stanford-football-post-ucla-bowl-update/comment-page-1/#comment-152255
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:51:39 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152255kudos to JW – i know alot of fok have their problems with him, but dig deep and you would be hard pressed to do better. The most surprising win of the season was Rutgers loosing; dormat of the next year, ho!

It is time to regurgitate and inspect the points i have made you sick with. 1. Stanford will not draw a crowd consistently unless the game is a passing attack. Note the Walsh years. 2. Stanford will not be able to recruit quality speed at the WR spots unless they get to be a part of the offense. Sure, Shaw looks like he has lost 15 pounds and he was a WR, but he has not shown he has recruited one. Perhaps Ed Needs to play both ways. WR is a different breed. You have the incredible hands types who run great patterns and the burners. So far, neither has shown up. Shaw needs to use the second UCLA game to try out all of his second string guys.

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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:53:31 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152172@CoastalMike: I would definitely be interested in hearing your ideas to fill the stadium. It seems to me the AD has tried very hard. There just doesn’t seem to be interest in this area. SJSU, which is on the cusp of the Top 25 had 12,000 – 12,000!! — for its game against La. Tech. Would definitely be interested in hearing creative ideas to overcome the lack of interest that seems to exist here.
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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:47:07 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152166@JAE2821 – You have some good points. On #4, I think both the coach & the school should have responsibility, but likely, as you suggest, that has to be written into the contract OR the contract has to be partially with the NCAA. Otherwise the coach has the protection of his employer, in which case the NCAA might have difficult legal grounds. Perhaps there are some obligations with the NCAA written into these contracts, I do not know. Does anyone on the site?

@Tim – close call does not equal bad call. if you want bad call, look at the replay official making 2 wrong calls on the Toilolo catch in the 4th quarter vs ND or on 2nd down in OT against ND. Those are not “gray” areas. Those are wrong calls. Besides, if you want a bad call that went our way in the Oregon game, you should be complaining about the previous play when our right guard or tackle was about 1/6th of a second early on 4th-and-1. Actually, maybe you should be complaining about how stupid DAT is for racing Mariota to the end zone instead of blocking. I mean, DAT even looked at Carrington at least twice before Carrington tackled Mariota. Talk about something to complain about if you are a Duck fan… complain that your players are so incredibly stupid!

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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:36:56 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152165@Tim: Oregon got jacked by Stanford physically. Oregon was only in the game because it benefited from 3 turnovers; Stanford should have won by 10 in regulation. Dominated. Thanks for playing. No natty. No more Chippy.

During the bad years, I thought we would get our attendance figures up if we started playing better but we’re not up that much. I also blamed sports Marketing, but now I think they’re doing a good job. So, what keeps the fans away in droves?

(I have similar questions about SJSU. They have a terrific team this year and their stadium was half-full for a nationally televised game.)

]]>By: CoastalMikehttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/2012/11/24/stanford-football-post-ucla-bowl-update/comment-page-1/#comment-152152
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:23:25 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152152I’m happy if Stanford contends for the conference title every year, usually gets some national ranking, beats Cal most years and avoids sanctions and arrests. Oregon can have their thing, they are happy with it.

Stanford’s biggest problem at the moment is getting people to the games. That means solving the transportation issues and making the experience better. Sadly, no one has asked for my opinion LOL.

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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:15:47 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152132@JAE2821: As for recruiting, Stanford is going to have a small class simply because they have few scholarships to give this year — 13. Take a look at the avg. stars of the commits and you will see Stanford is doing quite well (except on Scout, which has a much different view of Stanford’s recruits compared to Rivals and ESPN).
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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:45:03 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152126Stanford will crush UCLA and then win the Rose. This is a historically strong defense loaded with NFL talent.
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Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:18:07 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/?p=28824#comment-152120Yes Tim,
We lost to UW, BUT we beat your Ducks. You don’t like the call, well, we don’t like the call we got at the end of the ND game. Get over it. We won and are king of the Pac12 North this year. I would be more concerned about Chip jumping to the NFL…

Time to take care of UCLA at home and enjoy some post game wine and roses! What a great season it’s been and I’m thrilled to host another tailgate at home!

Here’s to the D and to Taylor! What a great year and it’s only going to get better!